Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall (Vale, Oregon)
- Title
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall (Vale, Oregon)
- LC Subject
- Architecture, American Architecture Fraternal lodges
- Alternative
- IOOF Hall (Vale, Oregon)
- Creator Display
- Herbert W. Bond (architect, 1869-1937) Charles Begg (builder/contractor)
- Description
- The Vale IOOF Hall was constructed in 1908 and served as a center for community activities in the town of Vale for several decades. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge #100 was founded in 1885 in Glennville, Oregon, and moved (including its meeting hall) to Vale in 1887 when that city became the seat of the newly-formed Malheur County. Like many IOOF organizations across the state, the Vale Lodge served the cultural and social needs of the small town of Vale, playing a significant roll in the civic and social development of the town. In addition to fulfilling the IOOF’s mission to “Visit the Sick, Relieve the Distressed, Bury the Dead, and Educate the Orphan,” it also served as a dance hall and meeting space for most fraternal organizations in the community, as well as the location of several Vale businesses in its two storefronts on the ground floor. Designed by regionally prolific architect Herbert W. Bond, the two-story, brick and stone building stands prominently at the primary intersection in town, directly across the street from the Drexel Hotel, also designed by Bond, built almost simultaneously with the IOOF Hall, and also listed in the National Register. National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2017) This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest.
- View
- West (front) elevation showing south storefront and closed transoms, looking southeast July 2015
- Temporal
- 1900-1909
- Work Type
- architecture (object genre) built works fraternal lodges
- Latitude
- 43.9817015
- Longitude
- -117.2419627
- Location
- Vale (United States >> Oregon) Malheur County >> Oregon >> United States Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 122 Main Street South
- Date
- 1908
- Identifier
- OR_MalheurCounty_ValelOOFHall_0003
- Rights
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Rights Holder
- The image is provided here by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Oregon Libraries to facilitate scholarship, research, and teaching. For other uses, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit photographer and the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image.
- Source
- Paden Vargo. "Vale IOOF Hall, Vale, Oregon, National Register of Historic Places Registration Form." (2015)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- Building Oregon
- Primary Set
- Building Oregon
- Institution
- University of Oregon
